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T. SCUDDER.

WAGON SEAT FASTENING.

No. 366,692. Patented July 19, 1887.

INVENTUR W/zzm/ Mm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS SOUDDER, OF GREEN ISLAND, NE\V YORK, ASSIGNOR OF T\VO- THIRDS TO JOHN H. SCUDDER AND GEORGE T. SOUDDER, BOTH ()F SAME PL ACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,692, dated July 19, 1887.

Application filed February 8, 1887. Serial No. 226,886.

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Beitknown that I, THOHAS SOUDDER, of the village of Green Island, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in XVagonSeat Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements upon that class of devices which are used to connect a wagonseat to the body of the vehicle by means of a clamping device; and the object and purpose of my invention are to better adapt such devices by construction to the use for which they are designed.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it, there is a plate of drawings containing four figures illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letterreference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure l is an end elevation of a wagon body and seat with my invention shown applied to connect the seat and body. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device shown as detached. Fig. 3 is a central and vertical section of the device, and Fig. 4 is an end elevation of a modification shown as arranged upon one end of the seat and side of the wagonbody.

The severalparts of the apparatus th usillustrated are designated by letter-reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letter B indicates the wagonbody, S the seat, R the body-rail, and C the clamping hook, which is threaded at '6 to receive a setscrew nut, N, having finger-pieces f and hook H.

The letter S designates a sleeve, within which, between its hook end and threaded end, the clamping hook is placed, and the letters E E designate ears arranged on the side of the said sleeve, adapted to receive screws by which the sleeve is attached to the scat. These ears upon the sleeve are constructed to face parallel with the seat side for attachment thereto; but the sleeve proper, at its upper end, and also the clamping-hook which it contains, are projected outwardly from the seat side, so as to make an acute angle with the latter, the sleeve proper and the clamping-hook which it contains inclining inwardly toward the seat (No model.)

end and wagon side as they descend, which angularly-arranged sleeve and clamping-hook place the set-screw so as to be more easily aecessible and convenient to operate. This clampinghook, at its lowcrend, has arranged thereon a stop, P, projected from its side at right angles to the lateral extension of the hook. This laterally-projecting stop 1 is formed on the stem of the clamping-hook at a point on the lower part of the stem and near the hook, so as to bring the stop with itsinner face against the face of the eleator rail under which the clamping-hook engages.

The function of the parts thus described is as follows: The apparatus being attached to the seat at the outer or inner side by means of screws inserted in the holes O of the ears E, the lower end of the elampinghook being passed under the rail 1% and the set-screw turned, the stop P engages with the side of the rail to prevent the hook from turning as the set'scrcw, engaging with the upper end of the sleeve, causes the lower end of the clampinghook to engage with the rail, and thus securely connects the seat and body. Where there is no rail upon the wagon-body, a hook, m, having a strap, 11, secured to the wagon side, may be used, and the clampinghook at its lower end made to engage with said hook at, as shown at Fig. 4.

I am aware that a clamping-hook has before been used for a like purpose, and that such a clamping device has been operated by a cam and also by an arm on the clamping-hook, with a pin on the latter working in an obliquely-an ranged cam-slide made in the sleeve which re ceives the clampinghook, all of which I disclaim. In the older devices named and disclaimed any sudden vertical vibration of the seat, caused by the vehicle passing over a stone or jog in the road, would jar the parts so as to disconnect them, and this difliculty my device is well adapted to remedy, as the seat and body are securcl y held together by the setscrew.

Having thus described my invention, what 5 I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is*

The scat-lock herein described, consisting of the plate E, having side extensions to secure it to the seat, and formed with a hollow IOO sleeve, S, the bore of which is arranged at an Signed at Troy, New York, this 11th day of angleinelining fromthebottomoftheplate ont- December, 1886, in the presence of the two ward, a clamping-rod fitted t0 the bore of the witnesses whose names are hereto Written. 10 sleeve and formed with clamping end H, a '6 THOMAS SGUDDER. threaded upper end, and lateral extension P, Vitnesses:

and a setting-nut on the threaded end of the CHARLES S. BRINTNALL,

clamping-rod, substantially as described. \V. E. HAGAN. 

